Find the station number(s) for your choices of cities
        by looking at,
                       station_libraries

            e.g.    Boston has station number 14739;
                    this will be used for examples

        To find the mass store files containing these stations
        go to,
                MSS files

            for pre-1984 data:

            e.g.,
                    K4559K         wban stations 14733-14764

            for 1984 and later data:

            e.g.,
                    Y20640         wban stations 14734-14740, 19840101-19981231, 127Mb
                    Y57688         wban stations 13904-23007, 1999 update  171MB
                    Y62820         wban stations 03017-23155, 2000 update  400MB
                    Y16785         wban stations 03017-99900, 2001 update  789MB
                    Y78483         wban stations 03017-94957, 2002 update  796MB

        To get data from mass store,

            for pre-1984 data:          msread      mydata.pre1984 /DSS/KnnnnK

            for 1984 and later data:    msread -fch mydata.1984on  /DSS/Ynnnnn

            e.g.,

                    msread -fch myfile.Y20640 /DSS/Y20640

        Now you may use the following software to read the data (but modify
        to select out the reports you want),

            for pre-1984 data use read_cosb2sprd.f

            for 1984 and later data use read_ascii2sprd.f

            e.g.,

                    f77 read_ascii2sprd.f
                    a.out < myfile.Y20640 >! mydata